Roman ecourging that immediately pre- deferential, eympathetio complianoe, whioh ceded his being handed over for crucifixion the disciple of Obrist might be expected to must have left on his sacred flesh-no part entertain towards his Lord, orucifted Cor 11pared-the entire frame pervaded alike him; suoh a sentiment as would prompt with disfigurement and with torture. To him to lighten, if he might, hie burden and the bodv of his adornble Lord at that hour- pain, to take part in his enterprise, to help to the humrrn cousciousuesa of every thought- forward his designs, Those brand-marks fu I epectat-or, defaced, shorn by the dis- would ory out in loud protest against a honouring whip of the dignity properly oon- fellow-disciple's antipathy, tergiversatlon, ll1<te with a human body, and made utterly or disesteem. vile (for this should seem to have beou the Ver. 18.-Brethren, the graoe of our Lord ~ymbolioa.1 meaning and intent of that l e■u Christ be with your spirit, Amen customary preliminary of orucifixion)--and, (;, xd.pis -rov K11plo11 ;,µ1»11 'l711Tov Xpurrov µo.-a at length on the cross, presenting to open 1'6v Tll•tJµa..-os tJµ1»11, l.lio.. ~ol. 1 Aµfw) ; ·. t/ls '\"iew those brand-marks of degradedness, the grace of our Lord JIJBU3 Ghri,t be with you.- apostle feels his own body to be, in the spirit, brethren. Amen. "The , grace of treatment it had reoeived and the oondition Jesus Christ " denotes his Saviour's loving- to which, it hed been reduced, in no small kindness, not only effectual in making a measure nRSimilated. Not only was he in guilty soul acceptable . to God through his spirit joined unto his Lord and one spirit atonement, but also in purifying it Jrom with him; but in body likewise was lie (so to sin, euduiug it with spiritual strength, speak) joined unto his Lord, and one body and securing its final salvation, The pre- with him; being deeply "taught" in the catory imperative "b.e," w)lich, of course, is lesson of what wa.s meant by beiug"a sharer to be supplied, clothes a friendly wish in of his sufferings, while day by day be- the pious form of a prayer. " With," the coming more conformed to the fashion of ,...,a which, in the Septuagint, represents I.is death " (Phil. iii. 10); clothed with the Hebrew 'im, meaning '' .present to help," Christ in this sense also; clothed with the is illustrated by Gen. xxi. 22; Ruth ii. 4; Crucified One. The verb /Ja.u-rd.(u,, as here Jndg. vi. 12; Matt. i. 23: xxviil. 20; John introduced. may be distinguished from the iii. 2; xvi. 32. " With your spirit,',' here, "'P•~•pavru of 2 Cor. iv. 10, by presenting as in. Phil. iv. 23: Philem.. 25: 2 Tim. iv. the notion of one's carrying something 22, replllC8s the " with you," which is the in thought separable from one's self, instead form in which the farewell greeting is of being (so to speak) commingled with commonly conched; as in 1 Cor. xvi. 23: one's own being. "I e.m ce.rr.Jing, and can Eph. vi. 24, etc. There -is no polemical offer to your view, the brand-marks of reference whatever. in the substitution; Jesus." Uhrysostom ce.tohes this view, per- re.1.her it is an affectionate amplification haps carrying it out somewhat fe.r, in his or intensification of the kindly wish or animated comment," He saith not,• I have,' blessing, the outcome of affectionate yearn• but ' I carry ; ' like a man priding himself ing, after the stern rebukes which he had on a trophy and ew;igns of e. king." The felt himself compelled to address to th8Jn. use of the same verb in Acts ix. 15, " to It expresses his desire that Christ's grace bear my Name before the Gentiles and might be very near to. them-,-near to the kings,'' clearly illustrates its import here. most intimate and most controlling po.rt o{ This closing verse is withal .no piteoll8 their nature. The singular "spirit" is ,.ppeal for cowmiserating sympathy. The conjoined with the plural pronoun "your," tone of "from henceforth," betokeniog the as in Rom. viii. 16; I Cor. vi. 19 (" your feeling of one who has made up his miod body"): 1 These. v. 23, "your spirit e.nd not to be trifled with, preclndes the notion soul and body." The word " brethren" is of his mood being one of mere self-pity and added l.ast of all, as it were in caressing tenderness. Far more does the e.postle affectionateness, e.s in Philem. 7. The final hereby make claim to share with his Lord " .A.men " seals the true ee.mestness e.nd ill that mingled sentimeut of reverence and the devotional spirit of the benediction.
HOMILETICS, Ver. 1.-Resforation of t1 fallen brother. The apostle changes his aUitude of rebuke into one of affectionate admonition as he addresses the " brethren " of the Galatian Churches. His language exhibits a marked softening of tone that recalb the warmth of his earlier relationship to them. There are" brethren" still in Galatia, Notice-- I. A GB.AVE CABE oF OFFENCE. "Even if a man be surprised in a transgresslon.u «lH, vr. 1-18.J THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. 317